Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town

@gcvsa

If I understand correctly, typically the challenge associated w/ setting up computers for public is all about Data privacy, making sure that everything is wiped after the person stops using the computer.

Is that what you are concerned with?

There is an operating system called Tails, (The amnesic incognito live system) which is privacy centric and already does this stuff by default. However, tails won't prevent users from administering the computer, for example, installing a different operating system on it or breaking it in a way where you would have to re-image it.

But maybe you don't have to worry about that until people who are very technical start coming into this space and messing with the computers, which may never even happen. Tails on its own could probably prevent accidental data exposure and that could provide a lot of value to begin with since it works out of the box.

I think the best way to do this would be with virtual machines. There probably is already a thing built to make this somewhat easy to set up, but I don't know what it's called and I don't know if it would be applicable to your use case.

But basically, you would separate the operating system on the computer into two categories, the host and the guest. The host would be locked down and only you the admin would be able to log into it. Then when a person who wants to use the internet comes in and turns the computer on, they have to follow instructions to enter into a secondary mode. Like maybe they just log in as a user called guest with the password guest. Then the login script for the guest user will run and it will automatically start up a new virtual machine.
Now they won't be able to modify anything on the host that would cause maintenance issues.

When they shut down that machine all the data inside will be lost.

And if there are some programs that your users frequently want to use, and they're always downloading them every time before they can start their work, then you could preload all that software onto the image that the virtual machine spawns from to streamline things.

@joshsusser According to Apple, it's his fault because he didn't pay for the subscription service. But I would much rather blame Apple because they made it nearly fucking impossible to back up without paying for the subscription service. They hide all the photos away and don't tell you where on the file system the files are located.

@eta Or if we're being ecological you know, and healthy, the live rosin in bulk.

@eta Honestly, where's the weed vapes? It's not complete without it.

@tty

er, I meant to say impossible vs implausible.

Anyways, I would still be interested in supporting your email server monthly. I have to warn you, I might be an annoying customer, but I might also be able to help you diagnose and fix issues, and make the system better.

@tty

with cyberia's email server nullhex.com, I have used a 3rd party service called glockapps to help test broad email deliver-ability across a lot of providers -- I just looked at their site and it looks even more gross and corpo / catering to spammers than it used to ... so I wanted to check to see if it still works at all.

Yes this is a very much "hold your nose" situation, but I found this tool to be helpful.

Interestingly, today I have learned something:

Microsoft now spammfolders non-allowlisted domains instead of outright /dev/null-ing them. Hey, that's a big improvement!! difference between the possible and the implausible I suppose 🙄

If you are curious, this is what the output for our server looks like:

@tty

Hi, kira. I'm interested. I have some questions about the service:

Did you ever manage to get the ability to deliver email to Microsoft email properties like Outlook? If so, I'm curious how you managed that.

Do you have a continuity plan? How many people have access to the Registrar account for the domain name of the email server, and to the email server itself ?

I always wanted to do email myself but to be honest I'm still working on building up the infrastructure and capability to be able to support it in a way that I would feel is replicable.

@KimCrayton1 I agree! I have been telling people that i think I'm racist for a long time. (And then trying to explain what you just explained in this thread)

I don't like this situation 😣 But I agree that acknowledging it is much better than trying to stay comfortable by ignoring it.

@reese T+048C? Lol

@austin

thick stews/curries have some base ingredient which is the reason why they're thick.

If you're talking French food, you would start with a roux. That's butter and flour cooked in the bottom of the pan until it browns. Then the liquid is added while folding and stirring to try to minimize lumps.

If you're a American vegan punk, you might make your curry out of squash. boil or roast a butternut and huck it in a blender with some olive oil.

Others may use full fat yogurt, coconut milk, mashed tubers, mashed legumes, etc.

Powder mashed potatoes can be a quick fix maybe ?

And then there's cornstarch which I would view as more of a last resort or a final slight adjustment at the end.

A small amount of corn starch is added to a small cup. Cold water is mixed in until it's fairly homogenized and there's no lumps. And then the mixture is poured into the hot soup while stirring.

@handle I just first try rolled "kinda awake viper chap" Which sounds like it was not randomly generated, but it actually was

🐍🎩

@handle I solved the "how do you generate a secure password" problem by just writing the code myself.

https://pwm.sequentialread.com/

Obviously, that's not something that the average person can do, but I hope at least that I'm improving the situation by publishing my result.

Sometimes I don't even use that thing though. I just think up random words. it will be some word or weird train of thought that comes from something that happened that day or from a news article that I saw that day. And after I choose a word, then I start over and try to find another separate source of something random to choose a word based off of.

I'm sure that this produces slightly less entropy than a dice roll would, but honestly, I don't think it really matters. I don't think anyone brute forces these kinds of things.